03 — File-System Initialisation

Status: SCAFFOLD. Verified source: System initialisation.txt (K and M are near-identical).

After the OS is loaded and started, log in and build the file system. Login: press ESC, then <enter><enter> (verified comment in source).

Verified command sequence (abridged, SINTRAN-K)

CREATE-DIRECTORY PACK-ONE DISC-75MB-1 0      # see 01-DISK-DEVICES.md
ENTER-DIRECTORY  PACK-ONE DISC-75MB-1 0
CREATE-USER SYSTEM
LOGOUT
# log in as SYSTEM
GIVE-USER-SPACE SYSTEM 15000
SET-INITIAL-FILE-ACCESS R,RWA,RWAD
SET-DEFAULT-FILE-ACCESS R,RWA,RWAD
ALLOCATE-FILE SINTRAN:DATA    1   77B
ALLOCATE-FILE MACM-AREA:DATA  100 100B
ALLOCATE-FILE SEGFIL0:DATA    200 10000D
SET-FILE-ACCESS SINTRAN:DATA   N N RWA
SET-FILE-ACCESS MACM-AREA:DATA N N RWA
SET-FILE-ACCESS SEGFIL0:DATA   N RWA RWA
SINTRAN-SERVICE-PROG
  DEFINE-SEGMENT-FILE Y Y 0 SEGFIL0:DATA
EXIT
CREATE-FILE MAILBOX:DATA,,
CREATE-FILE RTFIL:DATA,,
SET-TERMINAL-FILE   "TERMINAL"
SET-TEMPORARY-FILE  "SYSTEM-OUTPUT-1:SYMB"
SET-PERIPHERAL-FILE "FLOPPY-1"          1000B
SET-PERIPHERAL-FILE "LINE-PRINTER"      5
SET-PERIPHERAL-FILE "PAPERTAPE-READER"  2     # K; absent in M
SET-PERIPHERAL-FILE "PAPERTAPE-PUNCH"   3     # K; absent in M
CREATE-USER FLOPPY-USER / UTILITY / BPUN-FILES / SCRATCH / RT
CREATE-FRIEND RT
SET-FRIEND-ACCESS RT RWA

Standard system files (verification target — BIGDISK0-*.txt)

SINTRAN:DATA, MACM-AREA:DATA, SEGFIL0:DATA, MAILBOX:DATA, RTFIL:DATA, symbol files (FILSYS-SYMBOLS, RTLO-SYMBOLS, SYMBOL-1/2-LIST, N500-SYMBOLS, LIBRARY-MARKS), S3-CONFIGURATION:PROG/:CNFG, PATCHES:OUT, PATCH-FILE:OUT.

Known per-version deltas (verified)

• K declares PAPERTAPE reader/punch peripheral files; M does not.
• Standard users: SYSTEM, FLOPPY-USER, UTILITY, BPUN-FILES, SCRATCH, RT (GAMES seen on K disk dump).

Command reference

Link each verb to ../../Operations/SINTRAN/OPCOM-COMMAND-REFERENCE.md. TODO: verify each is present there.